FRADD Helps Me Solve a Mystery
In photographing the pictures in one of my old albums I pulled out a small newspaper column, an obituary for a Mabel L. Dodd. I’m pretty sure that it was originally tucked into the frame of one of the pictures, …
Category: Miscellaneous
Life on the Farm Part III Guest Blogger–Jack Costello
This is the last in a three part series written by Norman’s Uncle Jack about life on the Costello farm around 1920. The first two parts can be found here and here. Again, the words are Uncle Jack’s, I have …
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Using a Digital Camera to Copy
Our friend Ann and I spent the day recently trying out a technique she had discovered that allows you to use your digital camera to copy things that are not scannable for some reason. Ann is my more-or-less local photography …
Life On The Farm PartII– guest blogger–Jack Costello
This is the second part of a series of the memories of Uncle Jack Costello about life on a farm in eastern Washington in the early twentieth century. You can read the first part here. Family farm diet ran heavily …
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Wakeman 5. Early Denmans and Apple Orchards in Northern Ohio
My Denman family line first migrated from Ditchling, Sussex, England to New York state up the Hudson River around Kingston and Rondout Creek in about 1795. They settled in the Neversink area in Sullivan County. It was from there that …
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